Linking Tips

If you are new to writing html or just posting a comment on a blog, sometimes you can create a link for yourself by knowing how to make a link with html.
First step is to know that you need to open the link code with “<a” and with all html, you need to end it [...]

No Follow links may not be of value in terms of search engine optimization at Google, but that’s only half the battle as Matt Cutts explains.

If you are looking for links, and who in the business of promoting a web site isn’t, then a good place to look is site of the day web sites.  There are numerous such sites on the web, but there’s only one real site of the day.
That’s Mike Corso’s Cool Site of the Day.  It’s [...]

Ever since I became interested in search engine optimization, one of the basic things that I’ve learned is that links from .gov and .edu links are inherently more valuable than traditional links.  That seems to make sense as its certainly more difficult to obtain these links than it is to obtain a link from a [...]

Best of the Web Discount Promo Code
January 2010
It’s January 2010 and one of the best places to purchase a link is with the Best of the Web directory.  Yes, I know you’ve been reading all about SEO online and most stories say that buying directories is just a little bit better than a kick to [...]

Beginning this past month (December 1, 2009), bloggers are required to reveal their relationship with
companies offering swag or cash to endorse its products.
The Federal Trade Commission has the ability to levy fines of up to $11,000 to bloggers that do not reveal their relationships with paid advertisers.
Companies such as Blogsvertise, which acts as a middleman [...]

Sometimes things come along in your business where expenses are difficult to justify, but then once you have purchased them, you realize just how valuable that purchase was.
Such is the case with SEO Moz.  At $799 per year, it’s tough for a blogger to justify that cost.  Sure, you can understand it if you are [...]

We’ve all read a lot of stories about link bait and how important it is to publish things to get inbound links to your site.  I’ve tried my hand at link bait and some have worked out and quite frankly, others have not worked out very well at all.
I’ve put up pictures of baseball’s hottest [...]

No matter what many SEM experts say, or even what Google employees say, Page Rank is still a very important factor when promoting a web site.
Sure, it may not be as important as obtaining quality links from related sites, but it’s still important.
Google says that Page Rank is only one of about 200 factors that [...]

If you have a new web site, a good way to get it “on the board” in terms of search is to submit to directories.  Now, this isn’t, of course, as valuable as it once was, but its a quick and easy way to get some inbound links.
Bob Bentz, publisher of the GetClickz blog, gives [...]

A few years ago, directories became the brunt of many jokes among SEO consultants.  If you were an SEO
consultant that recommended directories, you were seen as being out of touch and a pretender, not a contender.
Not much has changed over the years when speaking of general directories, but the truth is that all directories are [...]

UPDATE — BEST OF THE WEB PROMO CODE.  GOOD ALL MONTHS.  CLICKZ15
One directory that still carries a lot of link value is Best of the Web.  Placing a paid link on Best of the Web is one of the first things that we do when we bring up a new internet site.
If you do business [...]

Dear Get Clickz,
I am a regular reader of your blog and you really helped me out with that post on how to resize a screenshot.
My blog is a fantasy baseball blog and it has a page rank of 4.  We are less than a year old, update regularly, and hope to get that up to [...]

If you’re into search engine optimization, you know that article marketing is a primary way to get your message out and get those all important inbound links.
You also know that article marketing can be tedious work.  Writing the article is one thing, but then getting it distributed is such a daunting task.  That is, unless [...]

Every now and then (when I’m not reading content from Sarasota SEO Melissa Fach) I read an article that is so good that I feel compelled to share it with the readers of GetClickz. 
This article by AudetteMedia on Link Building is that good. Enjoy.